To:THE MEMBERS OF THE SPARTACUS GROUP[1]

Published:First published in 1929 in German inIllustrierte Geschichte der Deutschen RevolutionNo. 6, Berlin.

      First published in Russian inPravdaNo. 308, November 7, 1930.

      Sent to Berlin.

      Printed from a photo-copy of the original.

      Translated from the German.Source:Lenin
	  Collected Works,

      Progress Publishers,[1976],

      Moscow,Volume 35,

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October18, 1918

DearComrades,

Wehave had news today that the Spartacus group,
together with the Bremen Left
Radicals,[2]has taken the
most energetic steps to promote the setting up of Workers’
and Soldiers’ Councils throughout Germany. I take this
opportunity to send our best wishes to the German
revolutionary internationalist Social-Democrats. The work of the
German Spartacus group, which has carried on systematic
revolutionary propaganda in the most difficult conditions,
has really saved the honour of German socialism and the
German proletariat. Now the decisive hour is at hand: the
rapidly maturing German revolution calls on the Spartacus
group to play the most important role, and we all firmly
hope that before long the German socialist proletarian
republic will inflict a decisive blow on world imperialism.

Ihope that the book by the renegade Kautsky against
the dictatorship of the proletariat will also bring certain
benefits. It will prove the correctness of what the Spartacus
group always said against the Kautskians, and the masses
will the more quickly be freed from the corrupting
influence of Mr. Kautsky and Co.

Withbest greetings and firm hopes that in the very
near future it will be possible to hail the victory of the
proletarian revolution in Germany.

Yours,N. Lenin

[1]SeeNote 325.

[2]Referenceis to the Bremen group of German Left Social-Democrats;
in 1919 the group joined the Communist Party of Germany.